At the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding between the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VNRC) and the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC). (Photo: VNA) Accordingly, the two sides willsupport each other via humanitarian assistance in case of disasters, cooperatein international humanitarian aid, and work together to improve communities’ resilienceto climate change.
They will hold healthcare trainingand experience sharing programmes, organise mutual visits and workshops toshare experience in disaster prevention and response, and increase opinionexchanges between the VNRC and RCSC chapters of border provinces.
In addition, the two sides will encourageprovincial chapters to hold exchanges, set up twin relations, sign cooperationagreements, and step up sharing experience in youth and voluntary activities.
Addressing the signing ceremony, VNRCPresident Bui Thi Hoa said that over the past years, the VNRC and RCSC havecarried a number of bilateral cooperation activities and obtained importantresults. These include holding all-level mutual visits to learn experience from andsupport each other in case of disasters, coordinating in healthcare activities anddisaster response in border provinces, providing training to improve Red Crossworker capacity, and help with sustainable forest development.
The VNRC called for the RCSC’s support for the COVID-19 combat, she went on,noting that the Chinese side has also helped the VNRC implement the projects onimproving communities’ resilience such as those on promoting communities’response capacity, equipping them with first aid skills, improving water andhygienic conditions, and carrying out climate change response measures.
RCSC Vice President Ping Wang, who isin Vietnam to attend the 11th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of theInternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC),expressed his hope that with the MoU signing, bilateral cooperation willdevelop more strongly in the time ahead./.
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